USATF BoardRecap: USOC Exec Slams Mt. Sac ""Thank goodness that embarrassment is behind us", USATF Board breaks its rules

wejo wrote:

MtSac-Always-had-issues wrote:

Lots of people who know the group thats involved with Mt Sac know how unprofessional they were and are. I was shocked they even won the original bid and to be honest it bit them in the A#@ and it was well deserved. From the outside they seem like a good group of guys, but if they want to move forward they really need to get rid of their top guys and clean house.

It would of been cool to have the OT's in southern CA, but not under those misfits at Mt Sac!

If that's the case then the Board shouldn't have selected Mt. Sac in the first place and then when announcing the Trails had been pulled should not have given the indication it was solely because of lawsuits surrounding stadium construction:

USATF Statement when bid was pulled:

Bidding to host the 2020 U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Track & Field has been reopened, USATF announced Tuesday. The USATF Board of Directors unanimously authorized the move amid continuing litigation surrounding construction of a new Hilmer Lodge Stadium at Mt. San Antonio College (Mt. SAC) in Walnut, California, and the resulting delays on planning for a successful 2020 U.S. Olympic Team Trials.

The USATF Board awarded the Olympic Trials to Mt. SAC last June. A key portion of the bid was a new stadium on the campus of Mt. SAC. In August, USATF first learned of two lawsuits seeking to halt construction of the stadium: one between the City of Walnut and Mt. SAC and a second, between United Walnut Taxpayers (UWT), a group of local citizens and Mt. SAC. The first lawsuit was settled in April, but the second has yet to be resolved.

With bidding reopened, the USATF Board of Directors will look to re-award the Olympic Trials no later than this June.

Continuing USATF issues wrote:

Other than someone like PoleVaultPower and maybe a few others on this board I have actually had lots of experience working with USATF on national championship events from the ground floor up. As a former meet director of the USA meet I can assure everyone that USATF may be the most incompetent group I have ever worked with. When people ask me my experience I tell them that USATF is run by people that have little to no knowledge about track & field. It runs rampant through that organization. I dealt with USATF leaders stabbing each other in the back for petty reasons, USATF leaders interfering with the event to a point where it was almost a disaster, putting up with their outlandish demands, both financially and otherwise. The only way for USATF to ever be a true great organization would be to get rid of everyone from Max Siegel down through their ranks. I can't even begin to put into words how corrupt this organization is. To watch the board meetings, and they just violate bylaw after bylaw is disgusting. I'm not sure but maybe a lawsuit would be the only way to get them to act in a responsible manner. Becca, aka PoleVaultPower has tried and tried to hold USATF accountable, but we need so many more. I just am disgusted with USATF and every time I read one of these threads my blood boils.

Continuing USATF issues wrote:

Other than someone like PoleVaultPower and maybe a few others on this board I have actually had lots of experience working with USATF on national championship events from the ground floor up. As a former meet director of the USA meet I can assure everyone that USATF may be the most incompetent group I have ever worked with. When people ask me my experience I tell them that USATF is run by people that have little to no knowledge about track & field. It runs rampant through that organization. I dealt with USATF leaders stabbing each other in the back for petty reasons, USATF leaders interfering with the event to a point where it was almost a disaster, putting up with their outlandish demands, both financially and otherwise. The only way for USATF to ever be a true great organization would be to get rid of everyone from Max Siegel down through their ranks. I can't even begin to put into words how corrupt this organization is. To watch the board meetings, and they just violate bylaw after bylaw is disgusting. I'm not sure but maybe a lawsuit would be the only way to get them to act in a responsible manner. Becca, aka PoleVaultPower has tried and tried to hold USATF accountable, but we need so many more. I just am disgusted with USATF and every time I read one of these threads my blood boils.